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Download full textMcCabe, Allyssa; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Brockmeyer Cates, Carolyn; Golinkoff, Roberta; Wishard Guerra, Alison; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Hoff, Erika; Kuchirko, Yana; Melzi, Gigliana; Mendelsohn, Alan; Páez, Mariela; Song, Lulu – Society for Research in Child Development, 2013
Multilingualism is an international fact of life and increasing in the United States. Multilingual families are exceedingly diverse, and policies relevant to them should take this into account. The quantity and quality of a child's exposure to responsive conversation spoken by fluent adults predicts both monolingual and multilingual language and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Misconceptions, Second Language Learning, Literacy
Peer reviewedSeymour, Harry N.; Seymour, Charlena M. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1981
The extent of differences noted between adult phonologies of Black English and standard American English were less evident in emerging phonologies since unique error types were not exclusively characteristic of either group. Findings have implications for articulation testing of Black English-speaking children who have acquired their adult…
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Black Dialects, Blacks, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedMallory, Yvonne; Chapman, Darwin L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1978
The spontaneous speech of 12 Black children (18-36 months) was evaluated to identify the existence of distinctive Black English features. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Early Childhood Education, Infants
Peer reviewedPatterson, Orlando – Journal of Basic Writing, 1980
Presents a definition of ethnicity and clarifies the relationship between language and ethnicity. Considers the effects of bidialectism and bilingualism by comparing the experiences of Blacks in the United States and Blacks in the Commonwealth Caribbean. (RL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Black Attitudes, Black Culture, Black Dialects
Peer reviewedBountress, Nicholas – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1977
Forty-eight Black children, ages 4 to 9 years, who utilized features of Black English in their oral language, participated in a study which investigated selected linguistic features believed to be a function of age among children. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Children, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedBland-Stewart, Linda M. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2003
A study investigated phonological skills of 8 African American English (AAE)-speaking 2-year-olds. They acquired and used the same phonemes and phonological processes as described in the literature for both AAE-speaking toddlers and toddlers speaking Standard American English. Results could not distinguish typical phonological development from…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Communication Disorders, Cultural Differences
Reveron, Wilhelmina W. – 1988
A bibliography on Black Americans contains over 450 citations of articles, papers, monographs, and books in seven categories: culture (language and customs); normal speech and language acquisition (theoretical framework, mother-child interaction, language community, form, content, usage, cognitive development); sociolinguistics (issues, dialect…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Cognitive Development, Communication Disorders
Getridge, Carolyn M. – School Administrator, 1997
The media's ebonics hysteria has sparked a national debate concerning the failure of the nation's urban schools to serve African American and other minority students' needs. Oakland Unified School District's systemic reform of curricula and standards hinges on new teaching practices exploiting the connections among language, literacy, and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Black Dialects, Blacks, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedRodekohr, Rachel K.; Haynes, William O. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2001
A study divided 40 children (age 7) into groups consisting of white normal language and language impaired and African American normal language and language impaired. African American English speakers with normal language scored significantly lower on the Test of Language Development-2P compared to white normal-language subjects, but did not differ…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Differences
DILLARD, J.L. – 1967
RECENT RESEARCH ON THE NATURE OF NONSTANDARD ENGLISH DIALECTS HAS INDICATED THAT CERTAIN ARCHAIC SPEECH FORMS ASSOCIATED WITH CREOLE LANGUAGES ARE PRESERVED IN THE SPEECH OF URBAN NEGRO CHILDREN. THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE BELIEVES THAT LANGUAGE PROGRAMS FOR THESE CHILDREN SHOULD BE BASED ON A MORE COMPLETE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF THEIR LANGUAGE…
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Age Groups, Beginning Reading, Black Culture
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the language in a Spanish bilingual reading classroom; (2) the early stages of language acquisition of black children; (3) the dependency relation between oral…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students
